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Inquiry as smear test uptake falls

Health officials have launched an investigation into why thousands of women in Scotland are failing to take up potentially life-saving cancer tests.

Health officials have launched an investigation into why thousands of women in Scotland are failing to take up potentially life-saving cancer tests.

The number having smear tests fell by more than 5% in the final quarter of last year compared with the previous three months.